An in-depth understanding of flow through fractured media is vital to optimise engineering applications, including geothermal energy production, enhanced oil recovery, CO storage, and nuclear waste disposal. Advances in 3D-printing technologies have made it possible to generate 3D printed fracture networks with different fracture characteristics. By performing fluid flow experiments in the 3D-printed fractured networks, the impact of the fracture parameters, such as the density, orientation, aperture, dip, and azimuth, on the overall flow can be investigated.
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